Thursday, April 22, 2010 from 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Burritoville, 2055 Rue Bishop, Montreal, QC
Please join us for this launch event! Come meet the editors, reviewers, contributors, supporters, students, faculty and friends of Sprinkle: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies.

Get a chance to look through this year's edition, as well as discuss the contents of the journal with its editors and authors. Most of all, come share some delicious food and drink with the Sprinkle Team and its many friends.

Food will be served, and bar service is available.

You can check out last year's edition here if you want some more information before the event:

Dr. Elizabeth Meyer, Department of Education, Concordia University
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
4:30-6:30pm
Hall Building, H-535

This talk will address the problems of bullying and harassment in K-12 schools from a queer and poststructuralist feminist perspective. Dr. Meyer proposes a new paradigm for understanding bullying and harassing behaviors (including cyberbullying) in schools in order to suggest more effective solutions to improving students’ and teachers’ educational experiences. By introducing the principles inspired by queer theory into pedagogical discourses, we will be more able to reduce violent behaviors, drop-out rates, and improve the educational and professional opportunities for all members of a school community.

I am just posting a brief entry to share with you a very interesting podcast done on the topic of homophobia in Canadian high schools. This was a graduate student project that I was interviewed for, and I think the final product is quite interesting and well done. The focus is on one student who filed a human rights complaint against his school and used the financial award from that case to start up an diversity education initiative called Jer's Vision.

Yesterday, Mr. Delong, a 10th and 12th grade Honors English teacher in Piasa, IL was suspended for assigning an article about homosexuality in the animal kingdom to his students. You can read the full article here. The local paper reporting this story quoted the teacher saying, "I have been suspended, but not without pay," Delong, of Carlinville, said Wednesday.

 According to the School Library Journal, Scholastic books is asking Lauren Myracle, the author of the new book "Luv Ya Bunches" to rewrite her story to exclude one of the character's parents because they are gay. The author is willing to clean up some of the "objectionable" language (words like "crap" and "sucks"), but refuses to de-gay the story since it reflects modern families. I'm so proud of Ms.

For those who have kept up with news from the IAAF World Athletics Championships in recent weeks, about the only story to hit the headlines here in Australia and I'm sure around the world was the controversy surrounding South African 800M runner, Caster Semenya.

The 18 year old South African seemingly appeared from nowhere to obliterate the field in the women's 800M final. On what should have been the greatest moment of her short athletic career, Caster was removed from the track partway through her victory lap by officials 'to avoid further embarassment for the athlete" as the Berlin crowd gave her victory a muted response.

Siredeaner Walker, Carl Walker-Hoover's mom, testified  before 2 congressional sub-committees on July 8 on the Safe Schools Improvement Act

Well, I can't say that I'm surprised that this news item is coming out of the state of Texas.  The place where football players are kings and their cheerleading counterparts are crowned queens.  Literally.